Voyeurism In Music Videos
Definition of Voyeurism:
- a person who obtains sexual pleasure or excitement from theobservation of someone undressing, having intercourse, etc
Forms of the Male Gaze
- The spectator's gaze: that of the spectator viewing the text, i.e. the reader(s) of the text. - The Intra-diegetic gaze: in a text, a character gazes upon an object or another character in the text. - The Extra-diegetic gaze: a textual character consciously addresses (looks at) the viewer, e.g. in dramaturgy, an aside to the audience; in cinema, acknowledgement of the fourth wall, the viewer. - The camera's gaze: is the film director's gaze. - The editorial gaze: emphasises a textual aspect, e.g. a photograph, its cropping and caption direct the reader(s) to a specific person, place, or object in the text.
Laura Mulvey
- Best known for her essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative
Cinema", written in 1973 and published in 1975 in the influential British film theory journal Screen. - Her article was one of the first major essays that helped shift the orientation of film theory towards a psychoanalytic framework, influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. |
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